Accelerating global warming is driving a rising tide of impacts that could cause profound human misery and ecological disaster, and there is only one way to avoid catastrophe: drastically reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Environment
Apr 4, 2022
24
419
It's difficult to imagine how a degree or two of warming will affect a location. Will it rain less? What will happen to the area's vegetation? New Berkeley Lab research offers a way to envision a warmer future. It maps how ...
Environment
May 5, 2013
10
0
It's a tie: Last year equaled 2005 as the warmest year on record, government climate experts reported Wednesday.
Environment
Jan 12, 2011
37
0
The vagaries of South Asian summer monsoon rainfall impact the lives of more than one billion people. A review in Nature Climate Change (June 24 online issue) of over 100 recent research articles concludes that with continuing ...
Earth Sciences
Jun 24, 2012
24
0
Scientists often use satellites, supercomputers or high-tech arrays of instruments to show how the climate is changing.
Environment
Oct 6, 2015
183
86
As major hurricanes slam the nation year after year, claiming dozens of lives and costing billions in damages, the impact of climate change on these natural events comes up often in political speeches and casual conversations.
Earth Sciences
Oct 14, 2022
8
29
Violent flooding from glacier lakes formed or enlarged by climate change threatens at least 15 million people worldwide, most of them in four countries, researchers said Tuesday.
Environment
Feb 11, 2023
0
75
Wildfires in western states have been increasing in number and severity over the past few decades. They cause severe destruction to property, sometimes harm or kill people, and cost a lot of money to local and state governments. ...
Environment
Feb 7, 2018
0
187
The world is rapidly running out of time on climate change.
Environment
May 19, 2023
0
88
A team of climate scientists at the Woodwell Climate Research Center in the U.S., working with a colleague from the Environmental Change Institute in the U.K., has found via climate modeling that many more life-threatening ...
